On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are going about decribing exactly what the idea of ‘flow of the fight’ is and how that impacts your late game decision making regarding items, talents, and even hero choices from the get-go! After our regular Week in Dota segment we’re focusing our hero specific segment on carry Bloodseeker (all applies to mid BS as well) who’s real strong at the moment as well as 4 Pudge played by Ursi who discovers the wonderful, terrible, gore-filled world of Pudge!

On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi are delving into the nuance of dishing out harass from an aggressive perspective as well as what to do when you’re getting seriously harassed from a defensive position. We’re also covering all those weird talents like Crystal Maiden’s +250 Attack Speed and when they’re actually useful, the difficult choices between Aeon Disk, BKB, & Linkens, why Ursi’s salty about Purge’s Crystal Maiden video, and plenty more!

Description: On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are going into some specific maneuvers & techniques that you can put into your play for an edge! We’re also chatting about our last 2 weeks in dota, Proud’s newfound offlane position, Invoker fears, Dragon Knight bullying, and plenty more! For heroes we’re playing Phoenix as a support and Tiny as a safelane carry and exploring how they work with their flexible positioning and strength as a pairing!

On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi try out a brand new segment for the first time, centered around picks & counterpicks, before going into a full explanation of Ursi’s idea before the 4 archetypes of Win Conditions that we talk about on the shows all the time! For questions we cover a bit about broodmother, a bit about dagon, Nova Scotian money pits, what the differences between 4’s and 5’s are in this 2-1-2 metagame, what each of the numerical roles translates to in terms of actual heroes, and more!

On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi go through the brand new patch, 7.18, and highlight the most important changes that’ll be affecting all our pubs in the upcoming weeks! Some highlights include the changes to lots of early-game laners getting increased mana costs, Doom getting a brutal movespeed nerf, Enigma’s Midnight Pulse getting changed around, and plenty of other small nerfs & buffs! For heroes this week Ursi is playing Offlane Enigma and Proud’s working out his Safelane Sven!

This week on Teach Me Tuesday, Bee & Proud go over a whole bunch of support heroes! They talk about what makes good picks, what a support needs to help your team, which supports aren’t so hot this meta and so on. Listener questions answered this week cover item builds on CK & his abilities, what to pair Shadow Shaman with & Aghs on Gyro.

On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud & Ursi are doing an in-depth look at the heroes enabled by our now-settled 2-1-2 metagame! Notably, we’re talking about Undying, Skywrath, support Zeus, Silencer, Nightstalker, all the offlane cores that are shining at the moment, and plenty other heroes that are trending! We’re also covering some casual dota chat like the most painful ways to lose, Phantom Assassin, and more!

On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi go back to the classics and aggro duo as Necrophos annd 4 Windranger! We’re also covering our calibration results, how early-season mmr uncertainty skews game quality/results, Dead Lanes, annoying people to death, how to win even if you’re in a bad mental state from the start of the game, and plenty more!